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But is this lower extremity of our intellective phase fettered
to body for ever?
No: if we turn, this turns by the same act.
And the Soul of the All- are we to think that when it turns from
this sphere its lower phase similarly withdraws?
No: for it never accompanied that lower phase of itself; it never
knew any coming, and therefore never came down; it remains
unmoved above, and the material frame of the Universe draws close
to it, and, as it were, takes light from it, no hindrance to it,
in no way troubling it, simply lying unmoved before it.
But has the Universe, then, no sensation? "It has no Sight," we
read, since it has no eyes, and obviously it has not ears,
nostrils, or tongue. Then has it perhaps such a consciousness as
we have of our own inner conditions?
No: where all is the working out of one nature, there is nothing
but still rest; there is not even enjoyment. Sensibility is
present as the quality of growth is, unrecognized. But the Nature
of the World will be found treated elsewhere; what stands here is
all that the question of the moment demands.
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